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Notes  and  News. 
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NOTES  AND  NEWS. 
Dr.  A.  R.  L.  Dohme  has  been  elected  President  of  the  Maryland  State  Phar- 
maceutical Association. 
Prof.  Robert  Bunsen,  the  distinguished  chemist  and  physicist,  died  at 
Heidelberg,  Germany,  on  August  16th,  in  the  89th  year  of  his  age.  An  appro- 
priate notice  of  his  life  and  scientific  work  will  appear  in  a  later  issue  of  this 
Journal. 
Mr.  E.  M.  Holmes,  F.L.S.,  curator  to  the  museum  of  the  Pharmaceutical 
Society  (London),  has  been  elected  President  of  the  British  Pharmaceutical 
Conference  for  next  year.  Mr.  Holmes  is  considered  to  be  one  of  the  greatest 
of  living  authorities  upon  the  subject  of  materia  medica,  and  it  was  in  recog- 
nition of  the  value  of  his  work  in  connection  with  this  subject  that  he  was 
awarded  the  first  Fliickiger  medal  in  1897  by  the  German  Apotheker  Vereins. 
The  Hanbury  Medal  for  1899  has  been  awarded  to  Prof.  Albert  Laden- 
burg,  Ph.D.,  M.D.,  now  of  Breslau,  but  formerly  Professor  of  Chemistry  and 
Director  of  the  Chemical  Laboratories  of  the  LTniversity  of  Keil.  Since  the 
establishment  of  the  memorial  in  honor  of  the  late  Daniel  Hanbury  for  his 
distinguished  services  in  promoting  a  knowledge  of  the  natural  history  of 
drugs,  it  has  been  customary  to  award  a  gold  medal  biennially  for  this  and  other 
investigations  relating  to  drugs.  On  the  present  occasion  the  adjudicators  were 
Dr.  Giinther,  President  of  the  Linnean  Society  ;  Dr.  T.  E.  Thorpe,  President 
of  the  Chemical  Society  ;  Mr.  William  Martmdale,  President  of  the  Pharma- 
ceutical Society  of  Great  Britain  ;  Mr.  J.  C.  C.  Payne,  President  of  the  British 
Pharmaceutical  Conference,  and  Mr.  Francis  Ransom.  Professor  Ladenburg's 
work  lies  principally  within  the  domain  of  organic  chemistry,  his  most  notable 
researches  having  been  on  the  constitution  and  synthesis  of  the  alkaloids. 
Following  are  the  names  of  those  who  have  previously  received  the  medal  : 
Friedrich  August  Fliickiger,  188  r  ;  John  Eliot  Howard,  1883  ;  Georg  Dragen- 
dorff,  1885  ;  William  Dymock,  1887  ;  Gustave  Planchon,  1889;  Julius  Oswald 
Hesse,  1891  ;  Johann  Michael  Maisch,  1893  ;  August  E.  Vogl,  1895,  and  John 
Elishu  De  Vrij,  1897. 
The  August  Coming  Age  contains  a  paper  of  great  interest  by  Prof.  A.  E. 
Dolbear,  the  well-known  physicist.  It  is  entitled  "  The  Kind  of  Universe  We 
Live  In,"  and  discusses  in  a  brilliant  manner  the  results  of  discoveries  made 
through  the  telescope,  spectroscope  and  microscope. 
Warner's  Pocket  Medical  Dictionary  has  been  carefully  revised,  and 
will  be  sent  to  any  address  upon  receipt  of  75  cents,  in  stamps  or  money  order. 
Address  W.  R.  Warner  &  Co.,  Philadelphia. 
Exposition  Official  Catalogue. — The  first  edition  of  the  Official  Cata- 
logue of  the  National  Export  Exposition,  to  be  held  in  Philadelphia  this  fall 
will  be  issued  about  September  10th. 
It  will  be  a  book  x  8^  inches,  with  about  160  pages,  and  will  contain  the 
following  information  : 
A  plan  of  the  grounds  and  buildings  of  the  Exposition. 
Photographs  of  its  principal  officers. 
Photographs  of  the  buildings. 
A  description  of  the  buildings. 
